PLAT Ee CK 
TANTALUS IGNEUS: corpore nigricante coeruleo viridi et vinaceo 
variegato-nitente, capite colloque nigris pennis 
albido fimbriatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 708. 
16. 
Tantalusigneus, Gmel. Syff. 1. p. 649. 
Numenius igneus, n. c. Petr. 15. p. 460. ¢. 18. 
Glofly Ibis. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. p» 115+ 14. 
The Gloffy Ibis is extremely rare in this country. It is not 
noticed by Mr. Pennant in the laft editions of the Britifh Zoo- 
logy. Dr. Latham has placed it in his lift of Britifh Birds, but 
mentions only one inftance of its being found in England. ‘ In 
the Leverian Mufeum is one of thefe, which was fhot in Cornwall.” 
Lath. Gen. Syn. vu. §. 
Cur fpecimen of this fpecies, we are informed, was alfo fhot in 
England, and on diffection proved to be a male. Whether the {pe- 
cimen from which Dr. Latham’s defcription is taken, differed in fex 
from this, we are unable to determine. The defcription does not 
exactly agree with our bird ; and the fpecimen referred to, is removed 
from the Leverian colle€tion. In the defcription, the eyes are 
placed in a white fpace: the eyes in our Bird are furrounded with 
black. The legs are alfo defcribed cf an olive colour in the dead 
bird, and green when living; thofe parts appear reddifh in our 
preferved fpecimen: we had no opportunity of obferving the true 
colour in the living bird; but it muft certainly have been more of 
a ted, 
